A8460 • 2025

Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without consent

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Sponsor: Brian Cunningham
Last action: 2026-05-29
Official status: Assembly Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without consent

Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without consent Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without signed written consent and requires disclosure if such information could be used to pay balances.

What This Bill Does

Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without consent Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without signed written consent and requires disclosure if such information could be used to pay balances.

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Bill History

2026-05-29 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-05-29 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.267
2026-05-29 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.267
2026-05-29 Assembly
SUBSTITUTED BY S2393
2026-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-11 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH
2025-05-16 Assembly
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without consent
Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without signed written consent and requires disclosure if such information could be used to pay balances.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8460

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          hospitals  and health care providers from storing credit card informa-
          tion without consent

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section  519-a  of the general business law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. NO HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SHALL KEEP  A  CREDIT  CARD  ON
     4  FILE  WITHOUT  OBTAINING WRITTEN CONSENT IN THE FORM OF A SIGNATURE FROM
     5  THE PATIENT. PATIENTS SHALL BE ADVISED IN  WRITING,  USING  TWELVE-POINT
     6  FONT  OR  LARGER,  AT  THE TIME OF PAYING FOR ANY SERVICES WITH A CREDIT
     7  CARD IF THE CREDIT CARD INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT ON  FILE  AND  IF  SUCH
     8  CREDIT CARD INFORMATION WILL BE USED TO PAY ANY BALANCES ON THE ACCOUNT.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    11  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    12  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    13  on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05869-02-5